[BangPypers] Updating Python 2.3.4 to 2.6.1 on RHEL 4

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Ashutosh Narayan <ashulinux at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wrote a script that involves "subprocess" module ; and when I ran it
> on  a production server I found that due to older version of Python 2.3.4
> my script failed to execute.
>
> I have the following python version on one of the RedHat servers.
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 18 2008, 17:17:04)
> [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] on linux2
>
> Now, the concern is of updating Python version to 2.6.1 w/o effecting
> other things eg: system-config-* on RedHat machine which are dependent
> on current Python version 2.3.4
>
> So far I have downloaded the source tar ball, untarred it and NOT yet
> executed -
> ./configure --prefix=/opt where I want it to land. Can I now run make, make
> install ?
>
> Any inputs on whether this is the right way to do withoutoverriding current
> default Python ?
>
>
1.  Install to a different prefix on the system (/usr/local/, /opt etc).
2.  Use virtualenv



> Thank you,
>
>
> ~ Ashutosh Narayan
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--Anand